Where to store home videos

can I store my home videos in iphoto?
Or is there a better place to save them?

I agree to NOT store them in iPhoto. If you anticipate having large media (movies, music & photograph) library I'd recommend storing them on external HD's. Apple provides directions on how to move these libraries in:
iTunes: How to move the library to an EHD
iPhoto: How to move the Library to an EHD
iMovie: How to move the Library to an EHD

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  • Where is the home video tab for movies on the ipad in IOS 8?

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  • Where to store your videos (2014): iPhoto vs iTunes vs iMovie?

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    Open iPhoto and iMovie. Find the video is iPhoto and control click to get the contextual menu. There is an option to locate in Finder. Click on that and a Finder window opens with the video file highlighted. Drag that file to iMovie to import. After importing you can delete the one in iPhoto to avoid duplication.
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  • How do you move or can I move Itune folders (Movies), (TV Shows) and (Home Videos) to other internal hard drives (running out of space) on my computer's main hard drive and have Itunes recongize where they are?

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  • Where do you store your videos?

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    Mist people store their video in the cloud.

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  • Where are Home Videos on Apple TV?

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  • Cast and Crew Credits for Home Videos

    Hi Folks,
    When I purchase a movie from the iTunes store It comes with limited cast and crew credits shown alongside the cover art. How can I add similar information for my Home Videos?
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    If someone knows that this simply can not be done, knowing that would save me a lot of hassle trying to work it out... Otherwise I will shut up and be more patient.
    Many thanks as always,
    David.

  • Seeking broad guidance on home video scheme

    Hello,
    I'm interested in resources anyone can point to that provides  guidance  on designing a home-video set up.
    For example, after many years and many tweaks, I've found a flow that works very well for my photos; folder structure, naming convention, face tags, content tags, etc.  It has taken a while, but my photos are now stored in a way that I can access them intuitively based on what I'm looking for....
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    Source: raw unedited video from past 12 years or so, in several formats (still on 8mm needing to be captured, .mod files, 720 mp4 files,)
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    Choose output format (I realize there's no single good answer). I am flexible on space/quality tradeoffs.
    I'm thinking I want to avoid DVDs: access from PC and from Apple TV device (jailbroken, will accept pretty much any video format).
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    Thanks All,  Chris.

    Hello Steve and all, Thanks very much for your help with my post.
    I think the most straightforward way for me to ask would be this:
    Similar to retiring the CD player in favor of digital music players, I would like to avoid using DVDs to store/access home video, in favor of hard-disk storage, and accessing the videos directly on the PC and other digital devices on my home network (specifics below)
    The immediate drawback I can see to this is losing the 'chapter' or 'scene' functionality of a DVD.  If I have a 60min video of a birthday party, it would be simple to set the DVD up with chapters to easily navigate to the scenes I want.
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    Camcorder models (I have video from several sources over dozen years.  So, some is old, some is newer)
    1. Hi8mm - still on tape (have not captured it yet)
    2. JVC Everio .mod files
    3. Kodak playsport zx5.
    Archiving for future projects? 
    My goal is to go through all the video, cut out the 'junk' and produce final cut videos, typically based on the event.
    Example: Take all 54 .mod files from a birthday party and make a single video for the event. Or, perhaps down to a couple of files to mimic the functionality of chapters on a DVD ?.....  open to thoughts from those who've been down that road.
    The bulk of video from over the years is either still analog, or .mod files standard def..  Moving forwad, all new video is Hi Def. Currently 720 mp4.
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    How do I plan to display video?
    1. Hoping to avoid DVDs altogether in favor of hard drive based system. Storage will be on desktop system in 'office' room of house.
    2. Primary viewing on living room tv via Apple TV2 (specifics below).
    3. Secondary viewing directly on storage / multimedia PC in 'office' room of house.
    4.Would like to be able to access from iPad / iPhone around the house. Not necessary to be able to view remotely.
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  • I'm using Windows 8.  I have 2 folders in my videos library - movies and personal videos.  When I try to import a movie into iTunes, it puts it in the Home Video section and if I import a personal video, it puts it into the home video section.  what up?

    Im using Win8.  I originally had all my ripped movies in a movie folder listed in the videos library.  This imported into iTunes movies with no issue.  I later added a second folder t my library - personal videos where i put all my home videos.  I was able to import this into iTunes and it showed up in "Home Movies" - very cool and exactly what I wanted.  Now, if I add a new ripped movie and put it in my movie librairy and try to import it into iTunes, it places it in Home Movies.  And if I put a new personal video, it will also import into iTunes under 'Home Video?.  What is going on here??  Any help would be greatly appreciated - it seems like this is a bug in iTunes 11.

    I thank you for the response.  Apple does some assinine things sometimes and this is one of them.  Ask the planet the difference between a movie and a home video and with the exception of Apple, you'd get 100% consenus on the what difference is.  A home video is something that I shoot, like my kids birthday party.  A movie is something I urchased either via download or a DVD that I ripped.  Unbelievable!   The fact that Apple has chosen not to distinguish based upon which folder I tell it is Movies and which folder is Home Videos is really hard to fathom - sounds like something Windows would do. I find it funny that in my iTunes movies sub-section of the movies section, the movie icons have a cloud icon in upper right corner to distinguish it as bought from Apple iTunes versus no cloud icon for movies that I have ripped - so the distintion was already made and clearly visible.  Now - everything just defaults to "home videos" if I try to import a new ripped DVD - why even bother to have this distinction on the iTunes bar?  WOW!
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